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Re: [PATCH] HEAD, ORIG_HEAD and FETCH_HEAD are really special.

From
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@eudaptics.com>
Date
Sep 7, 2007, 12:36 UTC
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<46E145BF.4070403@eudaptics.com>
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Junio C Hamano schrieb:
> But he has a stray .git/master file,
> perhaps created by hand by mistake (it would be very interesting
> to find how that file got there in the first place),
It is easy to get one there if, in a brave moment, you try
    git update-ref master $some_other_ref
instead of the correct
    git update-ref refs/heads/master $some_other_ref
-- Hannes
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  1. Keith PackardSep 6, 2007
  2. Pierre HabouzitSep 6, 2007
  3. Junio C HamanoSep 6, 2007
  4. Keith PackardSep 7, 2007
  5. Pierre HabouzitSep 7, 2007
  6. HEAD, ORIG_HEAD and FETCH_HEAD are really special.Junio C Hamano, Sep 7, 2007
  7. Johannes SixtSep 7, 2007
  8. Pierre HabouzitSep 7, 2007
  9. Junio C HamanoSep 7, 2007
  10. Pierre HabouzitSep 7, 2007
  11. Alex RiesenSep 8, 2007
  12. Keith PackardSep 7, 2007
  13. Keith PackardSep 7, 2007
  14. Nicolas PitreSep 7, 2007
  15. Junio C HamanoSep 7, 2007
  16. Carl WorthSep 7, 2007
  17. Junio C HamanoSep 7, 2007

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